If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it.
GEORGE WASHINGTONMuch was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.
More George Washington Quotes
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Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgement to others with modesty.
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Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.
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Experience has taught us, that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures best calculated for their own good, without the intervention of a coercive power.
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I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.
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Decision making, like coffee, needs a cooling process.
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country.
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Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections.
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The hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend.
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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
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It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government.
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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
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If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
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There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.
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The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government.
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